Rev Peter W Nimmo

Iranian strikes on Amazon data centers highlight industry's vulnerability to physical disasters Iranian drone strikes damaged three Amazon Web Services sites in the Middle East, exposing how vulnerable cloud data centers are in conflict.

(AP) — Damage to three Amazon Web Services facilities in the Middle East from Iranian drone strikes highlights the rapid growth of data centers in the region, as well as the industry's vulnerability to conflict. apnews.com/article/amazon-aws...

The international situation which Starmer inherited was and is horrendous

Telegraph declines to tell regulator how fake banker story got published The Telegraph has refused to tell IPSO how an article about a made-up banker supposedly hit by school fee rises came to be published.

Extraordinary that the Telegraph is refusing to tell Ipso how its story about imaginary couple Al and Alexandra Moy and their non-existent children Ali, Harry and Barry got published.

Veteran silk Robert Venables KC denies tax evasion charges.

Venables famously threatened to “set the dogs” on anti-tax-avoidance campaigners and called them “trespassing scum” at the Golden Handshake awards in Oxford in 2012. A trial is due later this year.

www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/veteran...

The @ipso.co.uk ruling of Telegraph’s preposterous “We earn £345k but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays”, reveals the article to have been a fabrication. There is no such family as Al, Alexandra, Ali, Harry and Barry Moy. Glad to have acted as lead complainant on this.

Congratulations to Ian on the success of his complaint against the Telegraph

Nigel Farage is off to the USA to do a speech to a US think tank this weekend.

No visit to Clacton, cares more about Republicans than British people.

In the last 4 years we have fired close to 60,000 Iranian brand drones into Ukraine. During that time Fidias smiled & said, "so sad but not my problem, cut a deal".

Half a dozen hit Cyprus & he wets himself without seeing that the events are connected.

You are, of course, more likely to survive a stabbing than being hit by a missile

That's what I thought- thanks for confirming 👍

I'd forgotten Peale was RCA

The Kremlin has declared the Russian Antiwar Committee a ‘terrorist organization.’ Here’s what that means for its members and supporters. — Meduza Founded in the days immediately after Moscow’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Antiwar Committee sought to unite those who opposed the war. Now, it’s officially considered a “terrorist…

The Russian Antiwar Committee seeks to unite those who oppose the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Now, it’s officially considered a “terrorist organization” in Russia. meduza.io/en/cards/the...

In the Church of Scotland, our courts have the final say on disciplinary matters. Free church have gone to secular industrial tribunals if they've been sacked, but the Kirk's constitutional position means that's not really an option for our ministers

TBF, that's true of our presbyteries, too, because much disciplinary procedure is dealt with now by a Judicial Commission answerable to the General Assembly. One of my elders served on that, so she got much more experience of that than I've had in 30 odd years in ministry

So, which side has the religious fanatics?

Instant dismissal for that commander, surely?

Here's the original complaint. According to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, at least 110 complaints received from 40 units in 30 different locations describe receiving similar briefings from officers who say that Trump is God's anointed working to bring about Armageddon.

“He loves the great philosophers/
Like Norman Vincent Peale.”

Funnily enough, I've just returned from a meeting of a religious court!

on this note… I uh… hm… …
this is such a choice for the history section of your church, y’know

Peale was an oddball, very much of his time

I think the PC(USA) said a few years ago he wasn't a member of any of their congratulations

Interestingly enough, if DJT still has membership at Marble Collegiate Church (and if UCC/RCA disciplinary procedures are not too far afield from the PCUSA ones) he could still to this day face a church tribunal in which his membership is removed and rendered void 🥰🥰🥰

Pleased to announce that we've almost finished work on an AI agent which reminds people to add alt text to skeets about British food. We expect it to be very popular here on Bluesky.

I'm off to a meeting of a religious court this evening

Trump is wrong. "Sharia courts" in the UK are not actual courts. They are not part of the judiciary & have no legal authority.

They are private bodies that offer Islamic guidance & mediation to Muslims.

Christians & Jews have Beth Din courts & ecclesiastical tribunals that operate in the same way.

Trump lashes out at the United Kingdom:

"The UK has been very uncooperative... They've ruined relationships... They got windmills all over the place that are ruining the country, ruining the landscapes, ruining the beautiful fields... You have Sharia courts adjudicating law."

2/ The narcissist trope of decrying MAGA as The Worst Yet Most Unusual Thing Ever In History (Apart From Hitler) just plays into the old trope of a "dumb American" who knows nothing about the rest of the world. ⬇️

1/ In Serbia, he and his political organization would be reelected 12 years after being ousted from office, while remaining the most popular voting bloc in the country.

Honestly, the level of US clueless exceptionalism on display coming from anti-MAGA people truly is...disturbing. ⬇️